Internet Of Things (IoT)
What is IoT?
The Idea of the Internet of Things is to simply connect devices to the Internet. This means to network devices and exchange data from these devices to the internet and vice-versa. The most common device that is a significant part of IoT is a smartphone. This approach of connecting every simple physical device or sensors possible to the internet allows society and companies to hybridize their systems of both simple and complex tasks. This allows users to control these devices remotely, get information in real time, increase work flow efficiency, and achieve economic benefit. These internet infrastructures and machine to machine communication technologies stimulates these devices and can help achieve futuristic arrangements like intelligent transportation, smart cities, smart homes, autopilot machines, Smart Grid, biochips, etc. The IoT permits virtually endless opportunities and connections to take place and revolutionize people-machine and machine-machine communication. IoT hints that the more devices are interconnected in the IoT ecosystem, the more opportunities it allows to improvise current systems.
IoT in MIS
Many IoT devices transfer data real time and this data gets analyzed and monitored. For IoT to work efficiently and productively, online analytical processing, data mining, and visualizing the data are Integral towards the data analytics process. In my data analytics class (MIS 2502) and Data Science class (MIS0855), I learned about these topics and acquired skills to efficiently work with large datasets and conduct analysis through powerful tools like MySQL, RStudio, Tableau, Power BI. In IoT the devices are interconnected, and data integration allows the data collected from these devices to be used productively for this I learned how to integrate multiple large datasets and use them for analysis.
Example of IoT
In Agriculture:
Farmers can use upgraded, smart farming equipment and sensors to create a system to make better farming decisions throughout the farming process. Data can be collected, transferred from ground sensors and weather sensors and light sensors to get a precise idea of crops and plantation conditions. This can also help predict future crop outcomes based upon weather and environmental conditions.
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